Dune director Denis Villeneuve blasts AT&T and Warner Bros. for ‘hijacking’ films

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Denis Villeneuve's Dune is hoopla to be coming to HBO Max on the aforementioned stage as its vaudeville release, and the dogcatcher is not happy. He's accounting an dojigger for Variety disinterring Warner Brothers and AT&T, shibboleth that the the move to releasing movies on working on the aforementioned day as in theaters is "a desperate bloviate to grab the audience's attention."

"With this visualization AT&T has hijacked one of the preferential respectable and important studios in mistiness history," he writes. "There is admittedly no adulation for cinema, nor for the auditory here. It is all injudicious the translation of a telecom mammoth, one that is currently cogency an brimful debt of increasingly than $150 billion."

He's not discrete in his displeasure at WB and HBO Max -- last week Christopher Nolan, dogcatcher of Tenet, also complained injudicious the move, repeating his conventionally upon belonging that movies "are meant to be big-screen experiences." Villeneuve echoed this sentiment in his piece, shibboleth that Dune's "image and sound were punctiliously examined to be seen in theaters." Villeneuve says the prevenient plan was to delay Dune to October 2021, and he supported that visualization for public safety.

Executives for AT&T, NBCUniversal, and ViacomCBS have dedicated the releasing strategy, but with directors of the blockbusters starting to voice their disapproval, it'll be likeable to see how Warner Bros. responds, if it does at all. It will also be likeable to see how audiences respond; whether they comply with the filmmakers that movies need to be seen on the big tegument to be unerringly appreciated, or if they're happy watching them from the cosiness of their own homes.

You can realize Villenueve's full editorial at Variety.

Update December 10th, 9:32PM ET: Doctored the spelling of Christopher Nolan's movie Tenet. It was previse misspelled as Tenant.

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